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Map of Civil War forts near Alexandria, showing Fort Ward (ca. September 1861) Washington D.C. Fortifications map (1865) Over the seven weeks that followed the occupation of northern Virginia, forts were constructed along the banks of the Potomac River and at the approaches to each of the three major bridges (Chain Bridge, Long Bridge, and Aqueduct Bridge) connecting Virginia to Washington and ...
On April 15, 1861, the day after the small U.S. Army garrison surrendered Fort Sumter in the harbor Charleston, South Carolina to Confederate forces, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to reclaim federal property and to suppress the rebellion begun by the seven Deep South slave states which had formed the Confederate States of America.
1st Connecticut Artillery, Fort Richardson, Virginia, 1861 Colonel Tyler reads a dispatch at Fort Richardson, Virginia in 1862 Company C, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, Fort Brady, Virginia, 1864. 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment was an artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The hill on which the fort is located was known as Prospect Hill. It is near the location where the famous but bloodless duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph was fought in 1826. The perimeter of the fort is 338 feet (103 m). When completed, the fort mounted 18 guns, a 10-inch (25 cm) mortar and two 24-pound (10 kg) Coehorn mortars. The ...
1865 map showing Fort Craig and nearby fortifications on the Arlington Line. The Arlington Line was a series of fortifications that the Union Army erected in Alexandria County (now Arlington County), Virginia, to protect the City of Washington during the American Civil War (see Civil War Defenses of Washington and Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War).
The family of retired Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg listens to speakers during a memorial service Sept. 16, 2024, at Fort Gregg-Adams, Va. Gregg, one of the namesakes for the post, died Aug. 22, 2024.
The U.S. Army has re-designated Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill to Fort Walker — making it the first installation to be named solely after a woman. During a ceremony on Friday, officials renamed the ...
The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. ISBN 0-8117-2868-4. Sears, Stephen W. To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign. Ticknor and Fields, 1992. ISBN 0-89919-790-6. National Park Service battle description; CWSAC Report Update